Quotes about Human

Isn't Hollywood a dump — in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement.

Human sympathy has its limits, and we were content to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.

The scandalous "word of the cross" is not a human word. It is the Spirit-empowered presence of God in the preaching of the crucified One.

The world's religions have certain traits in common, but until the gospel of Jesus Christ burst upon the Mediterranean world, no one in the history of human imagination had conceived of such a thing as the worship of a crucified man.

In the present time, God's "wording" (logizomai) of his new creation proceeds largely in a hidden way. The invincible transforming power of God's coming future is acting simultaneously in and through the deeply flawed realities of the present human situation.

New Testament presents us with not two but three agencies: God, the human being, and an Enemy.

The preaching of the cross is an announcement of a living reality that continues to transform human existence and human destiny more than two thousand years after it originally occurred.

Reflect the new way of seeing: the human situation is so tragic that there is no answer from within history. The Christ event is therefore the invasion of this world by Another, who is retaking for himself the world he created.

It becomes clear that whereas life in Christ results in obedience, this "obedience of faith" (Rom. 1:5; 16:26) is not accomplished by a human choice of one of two ways. There is a decisive difference between a call to obey and a transfer to a new world.

Human nature consists of knobs and of mechanisms for tuning the knobs, and both are invisible in their own way.

Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.

We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life--the unborn--without diminishing the value of all human life.